Buddhism Practices

Summary

This video provides an overview of key Buddhist practices, focusing on daily routines, precepts, and major religious festivals like Vesak. It explores differences between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, emphasizing how Theravada focuses on monasticism and self-reliance, while Mahayana leans on the bodhisattva ideal. The video also covers the precepts followed by both laypeople and monks, alongside various meditative and merit-earning practices. The unique features of Tibetan and Zen Buddhism, including rituals, meditation, and philosophical approaches, are highlighted. The video concludes with a detailed explanation of Vesak, a significant Buddhist festival.

Takeaways

• 🧘 Buddhism emphasizes seeing the world as it is and eliminating ignorance, which leads to cravings and suffering.
• 📜 There are five main precepts in Buddhism: refraining from taking life, stealing, sensual misconduct, lying, and intoxication.
• 🙏 Eight additional precepts are followed during religious holidays, such as refraining from eating at the wrong time, dancing, and using luxurious items.
• 💼 Monks and nuns follow ten precepts, which include avoiding gold or silver and additional rules on eating, dancing, and outward appearances.
• 🍚 Merit-making, including giving donations and supporting monks, plays a significant role in Theravada Buddhism for both laypeople and monks.
• 👥 Mahayana Buddhism introduces the bodhisattva ideal, where liberation is accessible to everyone, and emphasizes compassion toward others.
• 🎨 Tibetan Buddhism integrates rituals like mandalas and prayer wheels and believes Enlightenment can be achieved in one lifetime through practices like tantrism.
• 🧩 Zen Buddhism focuses on meditation and dismisses scriptures, using techniques like koans (riddles) to promote immediate awakening.
• 🎉 Vesak, a major Buddhist holiday, celebrates the birth, Enlightenment, and death of Buddha with processions, offerings, and candlelight ceremonies.
• 📅 In Tibetan Buddhism, Vesak is celebrated for a full month, and Merit accumulated during this time is considered significantly more valuable.

Q & A

What are the key themes of Buddhism mentioned in the video?

The key themes of Buddhism mentioned include ignorance as the cause of suffering, the reality of the world being misperceived, and the importance of eliminating cravings to end suffering. Theravada Buddhism focuses on self-reliance, while Mahayana Buddhism emphasizes reliance upon a bodhisattva.

What are the five precepts that all Buddhists should follow?

The five precepts are: refraining from taking life, refraining from taking what is not given, refraining from sensual misconduct, refraining from lying, and refraining from intoxicants.

What additional precepts are followed by laypeople during religious holidays?

During religious holidays, laypeople follow eight precepts, which include the original five precepts plus refraining from eating at the wrong time, refraining from dancing and outward appearances, and refraining from using comfortable seats or beds.

How does Theravada Buddhism differ from Mahayana Buddhism in terms of practices?

Theravada Buddhism is monastic and focuses on self-effort, meditation, and study to achieve liberation. Mahayana Buddhism offers liberation to all and relies on the bodhisattva ideal to assist in extinguishing desires, rather than relying solely on individual effort.

What is the role of Merit and Karma in Theravada Buddhism?

In Theravada Buddhism, merit (punya) and karma are essential for liberation. Merit is earned through good deeds, such as making donations to monks. The accumulation of positive merit helps maintain good karma, which impacts one's spiritual progress.

What are some unique practices in Mahayana Buddhism?

Mahayana Buddhism includes diverse practices like meditation, calligraphy, and word riddles (koans) to help focus the mind and realize the non-dual nature of the world. It also includes the bodhisattva ideal, where practitioners vow to help others achieve liberation.

What is the significance of the bodhisattva vows in Mahayana Buddhism?

The bodhisattva vows focus on freeing all beings from suffering, ending passions, learning endless teachings, and attaining buddhahood. Despite their seemingly impossible nature, these vows emphasize compassion and the commitment to help others on the path to enlightenment.

How does Tibetan Buddhism differ from other forms of Buddhism in its practices?

Tibetan Buddhism emphasizes ritual practices over meditation, such as tantrism, and holds the belief that enlightenment can be achieved in a single lifetime. It also includes unique traditions like the selection of the Dalai Lama and the use of mandalas and prayer wheels.

What is the significance of the Vesak holiday in Buddhism?

Vesak is a major Buddhist holiday that celebrates the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha. It is marked by colorful festivals, processions, and offerings at temples. In Tibetan Buddhism, Vesak can last for a month, with merit accumulation being significantly multiplied during this period.

What is the purpose of Zen Buddhism’s focus on meditation and koans?

Zen Buddhism emphasizes direct meditation and dismisses scriptures and rituals. The use of koans, or word puzzles, helps practitioners break through logical thinking and experience a sudden realization of the non-duality of reality, leading to enlightenment.

Outlines

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🧘‍♂️ Overview of Buddhist Practices and Key Themes

This section introduces the Buddhist practices and main teachings, particularly the emphasis on understanding the world and shedding ignorance. The core concepts, including the role of ignorance in suffering, are discussed. Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism are contrasted—Theravada focusing on self-reliance and Mahayana on bodhisattvas. The section introduces the foundational virtues, or precepts, that guide Buddhist practices, including the Five Precepts and how they expand to Eight for laypeople during religious holidays and Ten for monks and nuns.

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🚫 The Five, Eight, and Ten Precepts

The Five Precepts involve refraining from taking life, stealing, sensual misconduct, lying, and intoxication. Laypeople observe these during religious holidays with additional precepts such as refraining from eating at improper times, dancing, or excessive ornamentation. Monks and nuns follow the Ten Precepts, which extend the previous ones with restrictions on possessions like gold or silver, emphasizing communal living and detachment from material wealth.

10:00

🙏 Theravada Buddhism: Monastic Life and Merit-Making

Theravada Buddhism's monastic life is central, focusing on individual effort for liberation. Monks study sacred texts and practice meditation to accumulate merit, which is seen as balancing one's karma. Laypeople contribute to monks by offering gifts, which helps both parties gain merit. Merit is especially important for ensuring the well-being of one's family in the afterlife, preventing them from falling into negative realms.

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🌸 Mahayana Buddhism: Bodhisattvas and Unique Practices

Mahayana Buddhism, known for its inclusivity, allows everyone to attain liberation, often through the guidance of bodhisattvas. Practices like meditation, calligraphy, and riddles are used to realize the emptiness of the world. The Four Great Vows of bodhisattvas emphasize compassion, vowing to free all beings and end desires, even if the task seems impossible, demonstrating their dedication to others' enlightenment.

🎨 Tibetan Buddhism: Rituals and the Dalai Lama

Tibetan Buddhism combines meditation with ritualistic practices, and its distinct belief in achieving enlightenment within a single lifetime is demonstrated through tantrism. The unique process of selecting the Dalai Lama, believed to be the reincarnation of the previous one, plays a key role. Practices like creating intricate mandalas and using prayer wheels for reciting mantras reflect the deep ritualistic focus of Tibetan Buddhism.

🧘‍♀️ Zen Buddhism: Meditation and Word Riddles

Zen Buddhism is distinct in its focus on meditation as the primary path to enlightenment, dismissing scriptures and traditions. Practitioners aim to achieve immediate awakening through meditation and reflection on paradoxical word riddles (koans). The goal is to break conventional thinking and realize the true, non-dual nature of reality.

🎉 Vesak: Celebrating Buddha's Life and Enlightenment

Vesak is Buddhism's most significant religious festival, celebrating the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and death. Traditions include visiting temples, offering flowers, lighting candles, and participating in processions. In Tibetan Buddhism, Vesak lasts a month, with increased focus on accumulating merit, as actions during this period are believed to be more spiritually beneficial.

Keywords

💡Precepts

Precepts are the moral guidelines in Buddhism that practitioners follow. The video mentions five key precepts for everyone, such as refraining from taking life and intoxicants. These precepts serve as the foundation for ethical conduct and help individuals reduce cravings and suffering, which aligns with Buddhism's core goal of overcoming ignorance and desires.

💡Theravada Buddhism

Theravada Buddhism is one of the two major branches of Buddhism. It emphasizes self-reliance and monasticism as the path to enlightenment, primarily for monks and nuns. The video discusses Theravada's focus on meditation, karma, and merit, where liberation is achieved through individual effort rather than relying on others like the bodhisattvas.

💡Mahayana Buddhism

Mahayana Buddhism is the second major branch of Buddhism, known for its more inclusive approach to enlightenment. Unlike Theravada, it allows laypeople to attain liberation and emphasizes the role of bodhisattvas. The video contrasts Mahayana's belief in the emptiness of all things, even the Four Noble Truths, and highlights the diversity of practices within this branch.

💡Bodhisattva

A bodhisattva is a being who has achieved enlightenment but chooses to remain in the cycle of rebirth to help others attain liberation. In Mahayana Buddhism, bodhisattvas play a central role in guiding others on their path. The video explains how practitioners rely on bodhisattvas for assistance, making it a key difference from Theravada's self-reliance.

💡Ignorance

Ignorance, in Buddhism, refers to a lack of understanding of the true nature of reality, which leads to suffering. The video explains that ignorance is the root cause of cravings, and overcoming it is essential for achieving enlightenment. Both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism focus on dispelling ignorance but through different means.

💡Merit

Merit, or 'punya,' is the good karma that Buddhists accumulate through positive actions such as donations or acts of compassion. The video describes how monks collect gifts from laypeople, allowing them to earn merit. This merit plays a crucial role in one's spiritual progress and can even help deceased family members avoid negative afterlives.

💡Meditation

Meditation is a core practice in both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism. It involves focusing the mind to achieve greater awareness and understanding of reality. The video explains how meditation is central to Theravada's path to liberation, especially for forest monks, while in Mahayana, it is used alongside other practices like calligraphy to realize the non-dual nature of existence.

💡The Five Precepts

The Five Precepts are the basic ethical guidelines in Buddhism, which include refraining from killing, stealing, lying, sexual misconduct, and intoxicants. The video emphasizes that these precepts are followed by all Buddhists and form the foundation for ethical behavior, helping to reduce suffering and cultivate virtues.

💡Vesak

Vesak is the major Buddhist holiday celebrating the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha. The video highlights the significance of Vesak in Theravada Buddhism, where devotees visit temples, offer flowers, and participate in rituals like candle processions. In Tibetan Buddhism, Vesak lasts for a month and offers a multiplier effect on the merit accumulated during the festival.

💡Zen Buddhism

Zen Buddhism is a school of Mahayana that focuses on meditation and intuition rather than rituals or scriptures. The video explains how Zen dismisses traditional texts in favor of direct, personal experience through meditation, often aided by riddles like 'koans,' which are designed to shock the practitioner into a deeper understanding of reality.

Highlights

Buddhism focuses on seeing the world as it truly is and aims to eliminate suffering through understanding and reducing ignorance.

Theravada Buddhism emphasizes self-reliance for achieving enlightenment, while Mahayana Buddhism involves reliance on the bodhisattva.

The Five Precepts are the core ethical guidelines in Buddhism, which include refraining from taking life, stealing, sensual misconduct, lying, and intoxicants.

In addition to the Five Precepts, there are Eight Precepts followed during religious holidays and Ten Precepts observed by monks and nuns.

Theravada Buddhism is largely monastic, where monks achieve liberation through self-effort, meditation, and concentration.

Merit-making, or 'punya,' is a significant practice where laypeople earn merit by donating to monks and engaging in acts of generosity.

Mahayana Buddhism offers a more inclusive path to liberation, emphasizing the role of the bodhisattva and the idea of emptiness, even in the core teachings like the Four Noble Truths.

In Tibetan Buddhism, enlightenment can be achieved within one lifetime through practices such as Tantrism, which include rituals like mandala creation.

The Dalai Lama is chosen through a unique process that involves identifying the reincarnation of the previous Dalai Lama's spirit.

Mandalas in Tibetan Buddhism symbolize the cosmic world and demonstrate the impermanence of life as they are meticulously crafted and then destroyed.

Prayer wheels are a common practice in Tibetan Buddhism, where spinning the wheels recites mantras, symbolizing devotion.

Zen Buddhism, a form of Mahayana, rejects scripture and ritual, focusing entirely on meditation and achieving enlightenment through intuition.

Zen Buddhism uses 'koans,' which are riddles or paradoxical statements meant to challenge the mind and push one toward enlightenment.

Vesak is the most important religious festival in Buddhism, celebrating the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha through temple visits and offerings.

In Tibetan Buddhism, Vesak lasts for a full month, and any merit earned during this time is believed to be multiplied significantly, enhancing the spiritual benefits.

Transcripts

all right everybody well we are going to

cover in this last video on Buddhism

some of the Buddhist practices so what

does it look like for a Buddhist uh from

a day-to-day basis what are some of the

key things

um practices that they do um also we'll

take a look at one of the major

religious festivals in Buddhism and so

as we jump

um

we have talked already about how

Buddhism is about seeing the world as it

really is about losing passions and so

theravada Buddhism would do that through

self-reliance whereas Mayana does it

through relying Upon a bodhisattva

and some of the key themes here are the

ignorance which is the cause of

suffering right and so ignorance about

the reality of the world is what causes

cravings and Cravings cause suffering

these are just kind of the core things

of Buddhism

and so

um because of that Buddhism bases its

practice upon virtues or precepts and so

there are five precepts that everyone

should follow

at all times and then if you add eight

more these are precepts followed by lay

people during a religious holiday and

then you will look at 10 precepts that

are often followed by monks and nuns in

their day-to-day life

and so the five precepts

um you see in there there to restrain

from taking a life to restrain from

taking them not given to refrain from

sensual misconduct refrain from lying

and to refrain from intoxicants

and so taking a life is easy

um we talked a little bit about the

spread and the demise of Buddhism how

Buddhism lends itself to passivism

pacifism and so that's the idea to

restrain from taking a life whether

that's sometimes even self-defense you

need to restraint from doing it it's not

just murder necessarily it's taking a

life to refrain from taking that not

given and so that would be any kind of

stealing those types of things

if somebody hasn't given it to you it's

not yours and you can't take it

to refrain from sensual misconduct and

we talked about through

um

just about how Buddhism is the middle

way and so it's not giving up all

desires but um it's recognizing that

desires and Cravings come from ignorance

and so obviously sexuality is a big part

of that so the part of the fried

precepts is to refrain from misconduct

in that way and so

um that wouldn't mean your normal like

householder type stuff like we talked

about with Hinduism

um but anything outside of that

and

um of course you know this is for the

lay people but monks will build upon

that as well to refrain from lying or

just refrain from speaking untruth

you can see why you would do that and

then to refrain from intoxicants so any

kind of alcohol or drugs I'm usually in

Buddhist countries these are kind of

looked down upon

as something that you wouldn't do if you

were a good person and so because it's

part of the five precepts and even

though the senses might lie to you and

lead you to craving you still don't want

to be under so any form of intoxication

which is not going to help your

ignorance and your path forward with

knowledge

and then these eight precepts these are

the three additional ones and they're

observed during religious holidays and

so they're to refrain from eating at the

wrong time to refrain from dancing and

outward appearances and to refrain from

using comfortable seats or beds

and so eating at the wrong time during

holidays you're only allowed as part of

your observance of the holiday to eat at

certain times and so you can't just eat

whenever you want

and which would interestingly be enough

be kind of very different than American

holidays right often our American

holidays are celebrated by eating over

the course of a long period of time

where these are celebrated by refraining

from eating at the wrong time

and then to refrain from dancing in our

appearances our appearances means things

like getting all dressed up especially

in jewelry and things like that or

wearing things like perfume it's really

that kind of outward attempting maybe to

make some kind of a statement with your

outward appearances or show

um

you know your your well to offer

something like that and the dancing as

well

and then comfortable seats or beds this

is how you sit during the day and part

of it's just that desire for luxury or

to reduce suffering and so you're trying

to get rid of that

and then here are the 10 precepts these

are in addition to the five that we

looked at to begin with also it's

refrained from eating at the wrong time

which we've already talked about to

refrain from dancing to refrain from

outward appearances those were paired

off up in the April precepts that we

looked at before and then to refrain

from using comfortable seats or bed

um we talked about that as well during

the release holidays for Lay people with

that main one that's added along with

the religious holiday ones for a monk or

a known that they practice all the time

is to refrain from accepting gold or

silver and so that is the idea that they

can't have personal possessions of gold

or silver and while they might accept

some for the monastery or the nunnery

um

for the the Sangha they I just can't

accept it and have gold or silver

personally and so these are very

communal environments

because they're not because it's the

last of the ten precepts for a month or

none

um and so that's kind of the the ideals

or the precepts or the values that guide

day-to-day life are those five the eight

the ten precepts

and so um as we talk about practices

inside of tarabada Buddhism it's very

monastic it's monasticism which is

Central inter Buddhism only the ordained

as you can remember only the ordained

achieve liberation

and they the monks hold to a monastic

cold called the tripitaka

um there are Urban monks who specialize

in studying the tripitaka and the

monastic code in the Sacred Scriptures

and then even inside theravada they're

Forest monks who focus on meditation

and if you remember one of the big

things of terravata Buddhism Liberation

comes through self-effort right the work

that we're doing inside of us and so

this is Merit and Karma focused and it's

very focused on meditation concentration

and study

and so the Merit again we talked about

the the Merit and the karma and the good

and the bad you know those are kind of

two balances that are constantly moving

and making Merit is known as punya

um and so making Merit is a donation but

at the heart of the donation

is really Merit

and they usually go like this the monks

will go out to collect gifts

and so you'd give food to a monk is a

great way you bow down to a passing Monk

if you get ordained for a little bit

even if only for a short time that helps

you make Merit

um and so the lay people depend on monks

to earn Merit and so it's often very

monk oriented for the Merit of the mink

and as I uh mentioned earlier

um that there could be somewhat of a

dark side to this with that that place

where your your negative Merit is a kind

of almost like a version of hell and so

you have the dependence of your parents

and family members to keep them out of

there so you want to keep earning

positive Merit to keep them in the good

place instead of in the bad place

and so this is what it might look like

um the monks go out they collect gifts

and here you see people lining up to

give monks gifts they have their bulls

and they're filling the bowls with

different things

and this is what the mugs eat this is

what

um the the money that's given this is

what helps girls to support and build

um the temples and different things like

that as well

um so Mahayana Buddhism and its

practices remember we looked at the kind

of the branches of Buddhism and how

Mayana can be very diverse

but there are some common themes

um Mahayana versus the monastic focus of

taravata Buddhism and it gives everyone

an opportunity to obtain liberation

um but what's unique about it is you

know because everything is empty

according to Mahayana even the four

noble truths are empty and so you could

say samayana Buddhists would say that

they're provisional they were given for

a certain time period to help people

um and so it's the blowing out of the

flame that you're looking for it's the

extinguishing of everything and so even

the four noble truths and the Eightfold

way need to be distinguished

extinguished and so it's a difference

with the bodhisattva ideal instead of

the Merit Karma you're looking to uh

bodhisattva to help you with that

extinguishing

and so they have different techniques

that they practice inside of Mayana

again very diverse but these are some

common techniques things like meditation

where you're focusing on something and

trying to clear your mind and realizing

the Dual the non-dual nature of the

world calligraphy and so just slowing

down in the writing helps Focus your

mind and release it from cravings and

desires and also word riddles

um which are things that help your mind

realize absurdity

of kind of the world and we'll talk a

little bit more about those in a little

bit

but with the bodhisattva

um ideal there are these vowels that go

with the bodhisattva vials they're

different versions of these but they're

typically all very similar

and

um there are these four great vows being

our beings are infinite in number I vow

to Free Them All

these passions are endless in number I

vow to end them all

teachings for saving others are endless

in nature and I vow to learn them all

good is this

equipment and I vow to attain it

and so the bodhisattva they say yeah

they're

they're an infinite number of beings and

I'm going to Freed them all which of

course you know anything about

infinite numbers right that's that would

be impossible the obstruction of

passions are endless and number I bound

to end them all and so

um

here they're talking about helping other

people

the teachings for saving others are

endless in nature I've ought to learn

them all again it's just these kind of

absurdities but that's what the

vodhisattva is recognizing the absurdity

um

and leaning into it and saying that they

can they can help people overcome it

because they have realized the truth

they have achieved Liberation and so by

achieving Liberation now they can help

others achieve liberation

and the last one of course that

buddhahood nature which we talked about

um with the diff one of the major

difference between Mayana and teravada

teravada of Buddha is kind of like a

person maybe he had past lives to

achieve Liberation and Mahayana

buddhahood is something that can be

achieved by anybody in some ways shape

or form once they achieve Liberation and

then they choose the bodhisattva past

had a form of Mahayana Buddhism or maybe

its own foreign Buddhism as Tibetan

Buddhism

so their practice is a little bit

different they practice ritual over

meditation they do still value

meditation but what's unique about it is

Enlightenment can it be achieved in one

lifetime through things like tantrism

and

um so tantrism is be like forbidden

practices like eating meat or having sex

what other is unique about Tibetan

Buddhism is how they prep choose the

Dalai Lama and so if somebody does a

project on the Dalai Lama I would guess

that they're going to cover that in a

little more detail about how the Dalai

Lama is chosen but it's a very unique

process where they're trying to identify

who kind of receive the Dalai Lama

Spirit if you would call that when the

Dalai Lama passes they believe it kind

of passes into someone born around that

time period as well

um

one thing about my Ayana Buddhism and

even Tibetan Buddhism is the use of

mandala this is used in tantrism and

mandalas are a replica of the cosmic

world and they can take weeks or months

or years to build I believe this is a

sandman to Oliver is placed in each

grain of sand but then they're destroyed

after the completed to illustrate the

impermanence of everything

and so they represent the cosmic world

but then and they take forever to make

but then they're destroyed to show the

impermanence of everything

um another practice that is common are

prayer wheels and these have different

mantras carved on them so as you walk by

and spin them it's like you're reciting

the mantras I remember being at uh I

think it was the monkey temple in

Kathmandu Nepal and coming across these

prayer wheels and seeing people walking

around and spinning them and so they

have you can see the words there kind of

carved on them those are different

mantras

as well another form of Buddhism is Zen

Buddhism and whereas Tibetan Buddhism

values tradition and rituals then

wouldn't goes the opposite way and

focuses entirely on meditation

this is the idea that you can achieve

immediate Awakening or individual

Enlightenment through meditation

and what's unique about Zen Buddhism is

that it dismisses Scriptures buddhahood

bodhisattvas all for the intuition of

the void and so this idea that you can

kind of sense it through some meditation

and those World riddles and things like

that and um so that Buddhism usually

takes sitting sitting meditation often

for long periods of time to try to

overcome your senses and

um

part of Zen Buddhism is often something

known as a cone and Cone is a word

puzzle to shock your practitioner into

Enlightenment and it helps you see the

non-duality of non-duality in reality

it's not just a word story though it can

often be a short story to cause

reflection and they're usually

nonsensical so I'll give you an example

here when both hands are clapped a sound

is produced listening to the sound of

one listen to the sound of one hand

clapping and so you would sit there and

you would meditate on this over and over

again and in different forms of Zen

Buddhism you know if you start to slouch

your master would come along and hit you

with a staff

and uh kind of Jar you back into focus

and so there's just different ways to

practice Zen Buddhism okay so those are

some of the practices I'm going to talk

about the major religious holiday in

Buddhism

um it's vsoc or vsoc it celebrates the

birth Enlightenment and death of the

Buddha

um

and you can see here this is a picture

from somewhere around probably 2020 or

2021 I've suck and in terravada Buddhism

people go to Temples they listen to a

servant about Buddha's life and his

teaching it's a very colorful festival

and devotees will often burn candles

like you're seeing them here and incense

they bring flowers to the temple to

honor Buddha there's a tradition where

people flower carry flowers candles and

three incense sticks and walk around the

temple three times in A procession which

is I believe what they're doing here to

celebrate each of the three important

events so the birth Enlightenment and

the death Buddha

you can see another

celebration here where they would be

bathing the Buddha and they will often

only wear white clothes as well on vsocs

you can see a vsoc here they're

celebrating it with the flowers and

um just all in a white clothing and I

think you can see the Buddha kind of

there in the background as well and so

that's vsoc one of the most important

religious holidays and

um Buddhism and then in Tibetan Buddhism

vsoc is not just practice one day it

actually goes for a whole month and one

of the uniqueness parts of vsoc is that

the Merit accumulated during vsoc is

worth a whole lot more maybe even a

million times more and so a mini will go

on a pilgrimage they'll try to do all

these types of things during vsoc as a

multiplier think about um you know like

points scored in a video game when you

get a multiplier right and so vsoc is

this time period where it's a multiplier

for the Merit that you've accrued in

Tibetan Buddhism and so it's a major

deal there a full month not just a

festival that lasts a week or not just a

day about a full month that they take to

celebrate Tibetan Buddhism

well um that hopefully gives you some

insight into some of the precepts the

practices uh the unique nature between

taravada and Mayana as well as the

religious holiday of vsoc so hope you

enjoyed these videos on Buddhism

and coupled with what you get in your

book as well as your classmates video I

hope that it serves as a great

introduction to Buddhism for you in our

course